00:00:How do I add and modify text in the Rich Content Editor as a student? 00:05:When creating or editing an announcement, assignment, discussion, or page, the Rich Content Editor opens by default. You can add and format content using the menubar or toolbar. 00:18:The Rich Content Editor supports keyboard shortcuts. To view a window with a list of keyboard navigation shortcuts, click the Keyboard icon or press Alt+F8 (on a PC keyboard) or Option+F8 (on a Mac keyboard) simultaneously on your keyboard. 00:37:You can view the total word count. To view the total word count, characters, and characters excluding spaces, click the Word Count link. 00:47:You can also resize the editor window or open the editor in fullscreen view. 00:52:Type or paste copied text into the Rich Content Editor. 00:56:To remove text formatting, select the text, then click the Clear Formatting icon. 01:02:Select the text you wish to modify. Then click the Paragraph drop-down menu, and select the text style you want to use. 01:10:You can choose from 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24, or 36pt sized fonts. 01:20:Click here 01:23:Choose from Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4, Preformatted, and Paragraph styles. 01:31:To create single spacing in the Rich Content Editor, press Shift+Enter (on a PC keyboard) or Shift+Return (on a Mac keyboard). This creates a line break instead of a paragraph break. 01:45:To format text emphasis, select the text you wish to format 01:50:To bold the selected text, click the Bold icon, or press Command+B (Mac keyboard) or Ctrl+B (PC keyboard). 02:01:To italicize the selected text, click the Italic icon, or press Command+I (Mac keyboard) or Ctrl+I (PC keyboard). 02:13:To underline the selected text, click the Underline icon, or press Command+U (Mac keyboard) or Ctrl+U (PC keyboard). 02:24:When selected text is formatted, an arrow displays above the selected option. 02:30:Select the text you wish to color. To change the color of the text, click the Text Color icon. 02:37:To highlight the text, click the Background Color icon. 02:41:Select a color from the color drop-down menu. You can view the color name by hovering your mouse over the color tile. 02:48:To remove color formatting, click the Remove Color icon. 02:52:To select a custom color for the text, click the Custom Color icon 02:57:Use the color picker palette to select a color tone and hue. You can also enter RGB color codes or enter a HEX color code. View your custom color in the color display window. 03:09:To apply the color to your text, click the Save button. 03:13:You can format your text to appear as superscript or subscript. Select the text you wish to modify. Click the Superscript icon. 03:22:To format your text as superscript, select the Superscript option. from the dropdown menu. To format your text as subscript, select the Subscript option. 03:33:To align text, place the cursor in front of the text you wish to align, then click the Alignment icon. 03:40:From the drop-down menu you can select to align the text to the Left, Center, and Right. 03:46:To indent text, click the Indent icon. 03:50:f your text is indented, you can outdent your text. To outdent your text, click the Indent Arrow icon and click the Outdent option. You can click the Indent and Outdent options multiple times to increase or decrease the text indentation. 04:06:To align the direction of your text, click the Format link in the menubar. 04:11:then select the Directionality option. You can align your text from Left to Right and from Right to Left. 04:18:Select the text you wish to include in your list, then click the List icon. 04:23:You can select a bulleted list style, or a numeric or alphabetic list style. 04:29:If you reload or navigate away from a page while editing content in the Rich Content Editor, Canvas automatically saves your content in the browser cache for up to one day. When you reload the page or navigate back to the page you were editing, Canvas displays a message indicating that auto-saved content exists. You can preview the content, discard the content, or load the content into the Rich Content Editor. 04:54:To preview content auto-saved by Canvas, click the Preview button. 04:59:To load the auto-saved content into the Rich Content Editor, click the Yes button. To discard the auto-saved changes, click the No button. 05:08:Click the Reply or Save button. 05:11:View the content created in the Rich Content Editor. 05:15:This guide shows how to add and modify text in the Rich Content Editor as a student.